Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

New telescopic technologies are offering insights into whether exoplanets host life, focusing on atmospheric gas analysis.

NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian rocks to interstellar visitors. Instead of chasing flying saucers, ...

As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than estimated, which could influence the search for extraterrestrial life. That's the theory of a team of ...

Explore how astronomers aim to identify signs of alien life by analysing the atmospheres of distant exoplanets through ...

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Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

White dwarf stars, like this one shown shrouded by a planetary nebula, are much smaller than stars like our Sun. NASA/R. Ciardullo (PSU)/H. Bond (STScI) The Sun will someday die. This will happen when ...

We often wonder whether there are aliens on other planets but what if we ourselves are aliens on the planet we call home? Panspermia, the “controversial” theory that life “began elsewhere in space” ...